background: since there has been no published report on the impact of permanent canines in shiraz population, this study was conducted to investigate the prevalence and the location of the impacted permanent canines in patients referred to the department of radiology of shiraz dental school in 2012. materials and methods: this was an analytic cross-sectional study on 1012 panoramic radiographs....

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Tooth extraction as a part of orthodontic treatment plan to create space for leveling and aligning teeth or causing tooth movement leads to changes in arch width and length. The outcome of these changes is important for the clinicians and affects the treatment and retention plans. Despite some previous studies, data in this regard are still scarce and further investigation i...

By reverse transcription-PCR or PCR, among 257 children with nonbacterial acute gastroenteritis (AGE), rotavirus, norovirus, astrovirus, enteric adenovirus, and multiple viruses were identified in 78 (30.4%), 21 (8.2%), 7 (2.7%), 51 (19.8%), and 53 (20.6%) patients, respectively. Higher disease severity was found for AGE caused by multiple viruses and by rotavirus alone. The majority of rotavir...

Canine ehrlichiosis has emerged as one of the most clinically important tick-borne diseases affecting dogs. Eighty-five naturally infected dogs have been investigated, the most consistent clinical signs recorded were fever, emaciation and lymphoadenopathy, anemia, monocytosis, thrompocytopenia, hypoalbuminemia, elevation in liver enzymes and total bilirubin were the most remarkable changes asso...

The lumen of the gastrointestinal tract harbors a diverse community microbes, fungi, archaea, and viruses. In addition to occupying same enteric niche, recent evidence suggests that microbes viruses can act synergistically and, in some cases, promote disease. this review, we focus on disease-promoting interactions gut microbiota rotavirus, norovirus, poliovirus, reovirus, astrovirus. Microbes m...